Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-12-08
The Soldiers, Home.

The news that we get the Soldiers
Home, which was received here yes
terday by Mr.. German, the President
of the Board of Trade, accentuates
our claim to a superior climate in a
note whose sonorous sounds will not
soon die out. A committee Of gentle
men from the Atlantic States, OF con
fessed ability, OF a character far above
suspicion, perfectly unbiased in mind
came to perform sacred duty
that OF selecting home for the OIL!
veterans OF the war. The heroes are
now gro wing old. They bear in their
bones ills begotten of years of expos
ure to all sorts of weather, weaknesses
resulting from scant commons.
and maladies superinduced by
gunshot wounds and by sabre
strokes. Their comfort was the OBJ
ject in view, and no consideration
could swerve the judgment of the
cOIutD .llct lIOul tlidb pOllu.
These gentlemen saw the whole
State. They we're shown the most
eclectic spots in all the counties
Sites by running brooks were offered
Locations amid outrageous woods
were pointed out. Broad acres o.
land we're rendered. Largess OF cash
to erect the building were laid at the
feet of the committee. Napa spread
her choicest before the visit
ors. Santa Clara tempted th"m
with her best orchards Monte
rey took them to look at her
bold ocean shores frowning with
sombre woodlands,
The con mittee arrived in Los An
geles surrounded by unfortunate cir
cumstances. 1t was raining, the day
was overcast. But on the next day they
visited such sites as we had to offer.
The angels of fine weather came down
and binished the clouds from the
brow OF their own fair city. One spot
selected was by the seashore nea'
Santa Monica. This the Eas ern
visitors inspected. The blue waves OF
the bay rolled lazily in and broke at
their feet, saying, give to us the de.
clining days of your heroes and we will
soothe them with our music. We will
bring life-giving breezes laden with
the ozone of 10000 miles OF the ex-
panses OF Pacific seas. We will
battle their war-scarred limbs in our
tepid depths all days in the year,
whether it be in bleak December or
in roseate June. And the winds came
in from the league-long no lers of the
Pacific, and sang with the waves their
plea to be allowed to fan the laurel
crowned brows of the soldiers, with
their cooling wings. The sunbeams
smiled on the December landscape in
light as golden as in summers most
genial day, and begged to have the
veterans to bless during few decln-
ing years, with their brightness and
warmth.
So the pleadings of all these minis
tiers Of comfort and OF life prevailed as
they should, and on the brow OF the
mesa overlooking the beautiful bay OF
Santa Monica the Soldiers Home is
to raise its graceful towers. Here
Senator John p. Jones and Colonel r.
s. Baker have set apart 600 acres of
land. To this is, as we understand it,
to be added a plentiful supply of pure
water from the mountains, and then
the grounds are to be laid out, i'm
proved and planted with such wealth
of verdure and of bloom as flourish in
this semi-tropic cline. The offer is a
princely one. The selection could
not be surpassed this side of heaven.
The choice is strong endorsement OF
all that ever has been said OF Los An
geles as the most perfect climate on
the face of the earth. 1t is the best
place for the SCARED, grey heroes to
plss slowly down their last declining
DAYS. 1t is the best for all invalids OF
all sorts and classes to come to.